Jaye L. Derrick
PhD
Associate Professor
Community Health and Health Behavior
School of Public Health and Health Professions
Research Topics
Interdependence, the need to belong, and loneliness; Social influences on health and health behaviors (especially alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use) at multiple socioecological levels; The influence of substance use on social relationships.
Summary
Jaye L. Derrick, PhD, is a public health researcher specializing in close relationships and substance use and misuse. Derrick’s research focuses on interpersonal influences associated with self-regulation. Her work studies how romantic partners, social networks and other social contexts, like neighborhoods and cultures, regulate a person’s attention, goal setting and maintenance and goal-directed behavior. The path from relationship functioning to substance use, and the reciprocal effect that can occur from substance use influencing relationship functioning and intimate partner aggression, is also a large part of her current research.
Before joining the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior, Derrick was an associate professor at the University of Houston. Prior to her faculty roles, she was a NIAAA T32 postdoctoral fellow in the Alcohol Etiology and Treatment Training program at the University at Buffalo. Derrick received her PhD in social-personality psychology from the University at Buffalo.
Education
- PhD, social-personality psychology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
- MA, psychology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
- BA, psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University at Buffalo Alcohol Etiology and Treatment Training Program, Buffalo, N.Y.
Professional Affiliations
- American Psychological Association
- American Public Health Association
- International Association for Relationship Research
- Research Society on Alcohol
- Society of Experimental Social Psychology
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology